Just curious how others charge for providing moisture testing services? I usually state net 15 or 30 depending on the job. For long distance testing, I request the fee be paid the day of completion, and guarantee all my test documents will be in their hands within 24 hours.

Have NEVER had a problem collecting until now with a GC whose PO stated terms of net 30. Now, 120 days later, I have not been paid. Problem is, according to the GC, they have not been paid by the customer (a national restaurant chain!!!!! ). The flooring contrator is owed about $250,000!!! The total renovation was probably about $6 million!!!

All I can do is turn it over to the local Magistrate. Ugh!

Wonder what they would do if I ate dinner there and gave 'em a copy of my invoice and said "take it out of what you owe me"

(01-28-2013, 04:51 PM)CCR Wrote: Wonder what they would do if I ate dinner there and gave 'em a copy of my invoice and said "take it out of what you owe me"

That's a great idea. Bring guests and get them to split the bill, then try and rack it up to whatever the contractor is owed. Make sure you tell the contractor though! Perhaps bring him too...

Wish I could help, but haven't got a track record to boast about yet. It depends on the clientele, doesn't it. In my day job of supplying contractors we give them 30 days after EOM. But then, we are chasing anything up to $60,000 per month.

Presuming that independent testing services is best pitched to the installers, whether a small operator or a flooring group, you'd wanna give them at least 14 days wouldn't you. If they get a record of good payments then give them 30.

The way I see it is that the bigger the group, the more they want you to conform to whatever terms they have with their other suppliers, to keep it in their natural billing cycle. I know I get buggered up when a supplier asks for 14 days, because I only collate my payables every month. But we ALWAYS pay our bills on time... !

The problem with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's money.
- Margaret Thatcher

My services are usually requestd by everyone BUT the GC. Good thing I guess because around here, they are the slowest to pay. But this one is just ridiculous. As the old saying goes, "Don't write checks your a#! can't cash".

(02-13-2013, 11:37 AM)CC Solutions Wrote: I get companies that also tell me they haven't been paid so they can't pay me.... I ask where the contract says that was going to happen???

Snap. I get that all the time. Bring on the standard lecture: "If you are buying goods that you can't pay for until the job (on which you are using those goods) pays up....then we can't do business". Seriously, there's something wrong with the picture if they need to work like that.

The problem with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's money.
- Margaret Thatcher

It's actually illegal to do here in the states, but we really have no recourse except to hire an attorney, set up a lawsuit, spend a lot of money and time getting the thing to court, and then the contractor would pay before it went to court and you'd be blacklisted....

Kinda makes me wonder what makes commercial construction like this - especially when so much is financed and you figure the money is there to pay as they go. Most GCs around here are pretty good about having defined systems in place to pay subs monthly. Problem is the ones who totally ignore the terms and conditions of their own POs. And they laugh it off if you threaten legal action. What a racket!